"Liquid Sky" is a gonzo comedy, a solarized downtown farce set in the wee hours just before the sun came up on Ronald Reagan's morning in America.

The film is a melange of electric theatre, parody, caricature and mock-seriousness. It works well if you let it. Some might not bother. But I rather liked it.

This film doesn't give a Day-Glo damn about making sense, but in its own deadpan, punked-out way, it's quite funny.

It’s a film about performance art that feels like performance art, a surreal genre film that straddles American underground rebellion and European art movie ...